When NASA’s Cassini probe visited Enceladus, the sixth moon of Saturn, back in 2005, its observations led to a startling discovery. The icy moon, 310 miles in diameter, isn’t just another cold rock.

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in the solar system which might harbor extraterrestrial life. Old data from ...

The moon Enceladus shoots giant plumes of its ocean into space. Planetary scientists suspect this briny sea could be habitable, meaning it potentially harbors conditions that support life. Now, new ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The mystery of whether microbial alien life might inhabit Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 83 moons, could be solved by an orbiting space ...

In this 2010 image, NASA's Cassini probe captures a close-up of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, an icy world. Credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute Researchers believe they may be able to ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft zoomed by two Saturn moons this week to take what scientists say are the last close-up views of the geyser-covered Enceladus and cratered Dione for several years. Cassini ...

While on a world like Mars, we might have to dig underground to find life, or go miles under the ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa, one of the best targets for finding alien life could send life right up ...

The international Cassini space probe flew within 16 miles of the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus yesterday -- a breathtaking flyby to gather dust and water particles that will help scientists ...

This isn’t your father’s space probe. NASA scientists have developed a snake-like robot capable of exploring cracks and crevasses on icy moons where liquid oceans are thought to exist – but it could ...